Buried Gold

from Simply Enough by Stephanie Douglass

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I’ve had so many songs in me all day and all my life
And they call to me in all my dreams. Do I ever listen?
They’re frivolous and deep and sing to me when I’m asleep,
But like my dreams, they disappear as soon as I try to remember.

It seems as if there’s buried gold
Embedded deep within my soul
If I dug just deep enough,
Those songs might disappear into

The air, into the air
Into the sky, but then I might cry,

Because what if the world could hear it all, before I was ready for the world to hear it all?

And what if I trapped a song or two in a mason jar
And kept it for awhile on a shelf next to my window?
What if I opened it to find it strange and different?
Could I still be big enough to claim it was my own creation?

Perhaps my so-called buried gold
Should stay within my so-called soul
Or I could embrace the change
Then I’d have some more to sing

For you, I’d sing for you
I’d sing for me, well, mostly me

Because what if I couldn’t sing at all? Who cares if the world isn’t ready for me to sing it all?

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from Simply Enough, released August 11, 2019

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Stephanie Douglass Santa Maria, California

I'm a multi-instrumentalist songwriter living on California's Central Coast.

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